YOU CAN REDUCE YOUR CARBON EMISSIONS
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- Buy energy efficient appliances and light bulbs. (yeah, but then don’t leave them on all day).
- Use clock and thermostats to reduce energy for heating and cooling. (and clothes! What’s wrong with wearing a jumper at home?)
- Weatherize your house: increase insulation (not isolation)
- Recycle (and re-use, and reduce use before that)
- Buy a hybrid car (whenever they are available and affordable)
- When you can, walk or ride a bicycle (and pray for your life in the latter case)
- When you can, use light rail and mass transit (who takes that tram anyway?)
- Switch to renewable sources of energy (solar panels are all the rage and sooooo sexy)
- Call your power company to see if they offer green energy. If they don’t ask them why not. (if they do, ask them where’the catch is)
- Plant trees, lots of trees (ok, careful there. One could do with some kind of supervision, right?)
- Speak up in your community. Spread the word (be a green prophet!)
- Join international efforts to stop global warming. (by wearing “I ratified Kyoto” badges)
- Raise fuel economy standard: require lower emission from automobiles (like a Chelsea tractor?)
- Learn as much as you can about climate change (and now that you are at it, do it in English, it won’t hurt)
Then put your knowledge into action (in a gap-filling text, a new writing exercise…)
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5 comments:
To the Author of You Can Reduce Your Carbon Emissions:
1. How much power did it take to produce the electricity to operate your PC for this blog?
2. How much power and emissions were used and created by the manufacturer of your PC to enable you to participate in this blog?
3. How many trees were cut down or chemicals used to manufacture the desk that your PC sits on?
4. What chemicals were used to make the chair you are sitting in to write this article?
5. Do you have a plastic mat that your computer chair sits on? If so how much pollution was created from making that plastic mat?
I would love to read more of your articles on reducing emmisions but I have to shut my pc off now to reduce my carbon emmsions.
Some confusion there...
The tips are the author's, the comments are mine, and the blog is OURS (all students'). Who of the three are you addressing?
AN INCONVENIENTE JOKE by Fulgencio
--Buy energy efficient appliances and light bulbs.
(And later you can re-use bulbs in your Christmas tree and spend the power saved).
--Use clock and thermostats to reduce energy for heating and cooling.
(They are always more expensive and can be working 24 hours a day even if you are not at home)
--Weatherize your house: increase insulation (against neighbours parties mostly)
--Recycle (recycler enterprises will save a lot of money thanks to your help)
--Switch to renewable sources of energy (more subventioned, insufficient and clean –in this order)
--Call your power company to see if they offer green energy. If they don’t ask them why not. (Ask how happy they are thanks to your energy saving)
--Plant trees, lots of trees (and later built resorts and golf courses around)
--Speak up in your community. Spread the word (explain how China, India an others are spending in a few seconds what you are saving in a month. Spread the message that every time you leave your car to get a bicycle, a Chinese is doing just the opposite)
--Join international efforts to stop global warming. (Contribute to stop historical glaciations, 3500.000.000 is enough. Move the asteroids, specially the sun –but do it by night, risk of sunburns)
--Raise fuel economy standard: require lower emission from automobiles (Use bio fuel, so crops are more expensive and famine can be extended in the poorest countries)
--Learn as much as you can about climate change (Watch Al Gore’s film and discover the 8 errors)
--Change the world time twice a year (all energy a country can save is exactly the same that its antipode country can lost, moreover you will go later at work once a year –usually a Monday- cause you forgot to change the alarm clock )
--Then put your knowledge into action (Meet detractor scientists and favourable ones to get the “Big Truth” and later demonise atheists of the new religion)
“Hope is always the first thing I lose” Anonymous
inconvenient, inconvenient, inconvenient, inconvenient...
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